Sall v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
2 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin · Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler · Finch v. Connor · Ollman v. Evans Et Al.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because pure opinion by its nature cannot be proven false and, therefore, cannot be defamatory, it is equally protected regardless of whether the addressee is public or private or whether the issue is of public or only private concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zueger v. Goss
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.